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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name, both generic and specific, of the white-and-black or silver pheasant of China, Phasianus nychthemerus or Nychthemerus argentatus: so called as if representing night and day by its sharply contrasted colors, white above and black below. See cut at silver.
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